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Post by iAndrea on Jan 3, 2005 10:43:50 GMT -5
to die all we need is to be alive - i heard that a good 15 or more years ago and still i can't manage to not take some things so seriously. :spank:
i can't even begin to imagine what the survivors are going through... if something like that where to happen where i live, i much rather be amongst the ones that passed i think. well... i do believe we go back to where we belong to after we die, so the ones that stay here are the ones that suffer the most with the temporary being apart of the loved ones stuff - after all we can't see them but they can see us.
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Post by drusiph on Jan 3, 2005 13:10:24 GMT -5
I saw a scary BBC documentary yesterday....some scientists said that for example when volcanic islands collapse because of an eruption and big piles of rock etc. plunge into the ocean at great speed it can cause a mega-tsunami. The island of La Palma (Canary Islands) can cause a big risk cause if one of the volcanoes on it erupts and a part of the island collapses it can cause a mega-tsunami that will wipe out the entire east coast of the US!  ...they were talking about a wave that was more than 500 meters high! They didn't know if and when it would happen...could be during the next eruption or a couple of thousand years from now... i hope the american insurance companies don't find out about this. they will start selling tsunami insurance to every sucker on the coast. |
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Post by Roxyblonde451 on Jan 3, 2005 23:14:23 GMT -5
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Post by Sugarknickers on Jan 4, 2005 0:33:04 GMT -5
omg! :cry: today on the news they showed how many of the coral reefs were destoyed. my friend was scuba diving there this time last year. i guess its a divers heaven...or it was. it will take hundreds of years for the reefs to grow back.  |
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Post by T.C. on Jan 4, 2005 12:12:53 GMT -5
estimates are at 140,000 dead and 150,000 missing
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Post by Sugarknickers on Jan 4, 2005 12:57:24 GMT -5
estimates so 300, 000 could be dead...... i feel so helpless about all of this. i feel guilty that is happened over there and not here. i can not fathom how they still have the will to live. :cry: |
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Post by dru on Jan 4, 2005 14:29:44 GMT -5
there is this tourist trap helicopter pilot guy that says when he flies over the the small islands that he used to fly tourists over for pictures, he is now only seeing a couple dozen people where a few hundred thousand people used to live. he says he thinks it will be about 500,000 at least dead if not closer to a million. i am sure that is not the case, but who knows. there is no census in a lot of those places. and entire families that got swept away can't tell anyone they are missing, so no one to say how many are gone. very tragic.
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Post by mirakell on Jan 4, 2005 14:40:05 GMT -5
yeah, I think they even stopped counting bodies in Indonesia where most people perished |
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